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We’ve talked before about security issues involved with USB drives, but here’s a new one: A vendor alerting us to malware on a USB drive that it’s shipping with its product.
Schneider Electric recently notified users of its Conext Combox and Conext Battery Monitor that USB removable media...

Security experts watched in horror as journalists attending the US - North Korea summit in Singapore in June were handed gift bags containing adorable little USB fans. Plug them into your laptop and they would help keep you cool.
They could also, if you’ve read this blog for any length of...

You’ve heard about phishing. Now we’ve got one with actual bait: a mailed USB card called a web key.
As one techie describes it, “Here is the prototype for the next big wave of security breaches.”
According to TJ Gamble, founder and CEO of ecommerce company jamerson.com, Blue...

We keep telling you and telling you: Don’t plug strange USBs into your computer! You don’t know where it’s been! Now, it could kill your computer.
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